Laurence Cockcroft is a development economist whose interest and committment to development in Africa has lasted since his first experience in Nigeria as a volunteer (VSO) in 1962. Following a study of history and economics at Cambridge University he was awarded a fellowship by the London based Overseas Development Instiute to work in the Ministry of Rural Development in Zambia in 1966. He later extended this experience of working closely with small scale farmers to Tanzania where he was employed by the Tanzania Rural Development Bank from 1971-2.
'Global Corruption' represents the author's accumulated experience working extensively in the developing world, co-founding TI and developing strategies to combat governmental and corporate indifference to corruption issues in both the developed world and developign world.
Critical issues underlying the book are:
Corruption continuously under-rated as a key factor in affecting political outcomes in countries from Russia to India to the DRC
UK government in a state of denial about extent of corruption in the UK
Global poverty and huge inequalities continue to be sustained by corruption
Corruption plays a key role in creating 'failed states', past, present and future
Environmental destruction is accelerated by corruption with serious consequences for climate change
Organised crime is a critical driver of corruption from the EU to China to Mexico
'Illicit' capital flows, originating in various forms of corruption, channel $1 trillion per year to 'secrecy jurisdictions'
The adequacy of G20 action to address corruption on a global basis